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by Will Purcell

The critical and specialty minerals stocks box score for Thursday was an upbeat 112-71-121 as the TSX Venture Exchange added 19 points to 1,007. Trumbull Fisher's hydrogen promotion, Anteros Metals Inc. (ANT), was lighter than air Wednesday, as it leapt 3.5 cents to 21.5 cents on 3.66 million shares.

The gain followed word that gas sampling during deep drilling on its Seagull project in Newfoundland has returned up to 0.65 per cent hydrogen gas from a depth of 825 metres. Carbon dioxide and nitrogen shared top billing, each just shy of the 50-per-cent mark. This was a rush sample from a site drilled 150 metres southwest of where a hole returned 0.04 per cent hydrogen, also at the 825-metre level, with that test dominated by nearly 90 per cent carbon dioxide. Anteros lost one-half cent to 21 cents on 1.12 million shares today.

Mohammed Jiwan's Zentek Ltd. (ZEN) rose three cents to 82 cents on 136,000 shares. The company has sold 18 million shares at $1, raising $18-million through a listed issuer financing exemption (LIFE) placement. (Zentek had been trading near $1.50 in mid-May, but word of the LIFE offering was the kiss of death, as the company's stock promptly gapped down as low as 86 cents -- and subsequently dropped as low as 77 cents this week.)

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